Sentence examples for prolonged execution from inspiring English sources

This is the third controversial prolonged execution which used the sedative midazolam this year, after Dennis McGuire in Ohio in January and Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma in April.

The prolonged execution was described as "torture" by Arizona senator John McCain on Thursday, who added that the procedure was "bollocks-upped" and "terrible".

"Instead of the one dose as required under the protocol, ADC injected 15 separate doses of the drug combination, resulting in the most prolonged execution in recent memory.

The choice of lethal chemicals risks a prolonged execution for another death row inmate, which would be distressing for witnesses and the American people – and could inflict excruciating pain on Warner in violation of the US constitution.

Seven states have killed 26 men in 2014, including Joseph Wood, whose prolonged execution – "gasping and snorting" for almost two hours – is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.

The family of a convicted murder who was put to death in Ohio using a previously untested cocktail of drugs has said his prolonged execution was unconstitutional and should not be used again in a federal lawsuit.

There is a great incentive to prolong the execution time.

The Oklahoma prison admitted that the drugs and IV fluid "infiltrated" and "extravasated" into the tissues of Lockett's groin because of the misplaced catheter, and that is why the execution was prolonged and botched.

The Government of Iran continues to engage in serious, systematic, and ongoing violations of human rights, including suppression of freedom of expression and religious freedom, illegitimately prolonged detention, torture, and executions.

But persecution has increased: "The government of Iran continues to engage in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused".

The Commission's 2013 report concluded: "The government of Iran continues to engage in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom, including prolonged detention, torture, and executions based primarily or entirely upon the religion of the accused".